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>American here. Did nominally holding NK have any benefit for Armenia? Outside of nationalist feelings of course.
Absolutely none, outside of muh cradle of Armenia's culture or some dumb shit like that.
In fact, it had negative strategic value, since that birdshit splat of a territory was always at risk of getting encircled, and was a perpetual casus belli with Azrb. But the Armenians got fatheaded due to their spectacular success in the '90s war, and deliberately sabotaged any attempt at eliminating border gore porn.
Their behavior is particularly egregious, in retrospect, given how weak Haydar (Ilham's father) Aliyev's position was after the war. They could've offered a direct swap between Nakhichevan and NK, to clean up the South. Sure, population transfer is technically illegal as per UN charter, but that has no real world value. As long as nobody can actually stop you from doing something, rules and laws don't matter.

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